Pounding the pavement

Wednesday was a good day for exercise. I hit the sidewalk shortly after waking up, and ended up walking for 45 minutes.

The first 20 minutes was easy-peasy. The second 20? Not so much. But instead of turning around and giving in to the urge to go home, I stuck it out. And I was glad I did. I felt such a sense of accomplishment when I was done.

The rest of the day went pretty well, too. In preparation for Thursday morning’s weigh-in, I downed enough water to float a ship.

I’ll see how well it worked. I’m not sure what to expect from the scale this week. I’ve been eating about the same as I have been and exercising the same amount. Guess I’ll find out soon enough.

I feel like I’m coming down with a cold. My throat is sore and I’m sniffly. It had better go away before my writer’s conference next weekend.

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... if you're in a coma, maybe. Most of us have to work at it — every day and every minute. It's not easy to make the right choices, to drink water instead of (diet) soda, pick the grilled chicken sandwich instead of a burger or choose to get up and get moving instead of lounging around in bed. After spening too long making the wrong choices, I've re-committed to a low-carb lifestyle. My choices may no longer be Weight Watchers- or Whole30- or paleo-approved, but the concept is the same: I'm still getting closer to my goal weight one choice at a time.

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